aloh@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Andy Loh) (03/02/90)
For all of you out there looking for a relatively low cost hard drive, I might have the answer. A few months ago (Dec. 89), I bought a 3.5" hard drive from MacZone for under $600. Details: manufacture: Seagate dimensions: 3.5", fits in a IIcx (height?) memory: 80Mb (I think I formatted to a little more, though) access time: 21 ms (tested with a program, forgot which one) price: $595 (plus $30 for UniMac installation kit) warranty: 1 year notes: the drive was originally designed for an IBM clone. There is an LED that tells when it's active, but you can't see it when it is inside a Mac. The UniMac installation kit comes with a wire for the LED, so if you know how, you could wire up the spare LED to show on the front panel. The installation kit also comes with the formatting software (the drive comes unformatted). You can do true SCSI partitioning on any drive with this software (not like Jasmine, from what I've heard). The drive is a bit noisy, but not as noisy as some of the fans I've heard. I've had no problems with it since I got it. I installed it myself, with the help of another Mac-using friend. Judging by some of the prices I've seen for drives of comprable size, I would say this is a good price. It has been a few months, so I'm not exactly sure of some of the details. I've had no problems with it and I'm quite satisfied with the drive. Nothing beats seeing 70000+k available on your disk, especially having to disk swap for the month before getting the drive. Of course the best source for more information is MacZone. They have a toll free number which I don't have at this moment, but I'm sure you can find in any Mac related magazine. Be sure that you make sure that the drive and installation kits are for your particular model of Mac when ordering. Andy (aloh@ocf.berkeley.edu) DISCLAIMER: This is what I did during Dec. 1989. Things may have changed since then, so I'm not responsible for such changes. I am in no way connected with MacZone, Seagate, or UniMac. I am just a satisfied customer sharing what he knows.
evett@drinkme.umd.edu (Matt Evett) (03/08/90)
For all of you out there looking for a relatively low cost hard drive, I might have the answer. A few months ago (Dec. 89), I bought a 3.5" hard drive from MacZone for under $600. Details: manufacture: Seagate dimensions: 3.5", fits in a IIcx (height?) memory: 80Mb (I think I formatted to a little more, though) access time: 21 ms (tested with a program, forgot which one) ------------------ Why was this posted to comp.sys.mac instead of comp.sys.mac.hardware? I'm on a rampage to try to cut down the number of postings that make it [needlessly] to this group. Cut down on comp.sys.mac clutter!! -- Matt Evett Dept.Comp.Sci., University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. evett@brillig.umd.edu